Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-04-22
DAKOTA NEWS.

competed VOluLue tuIoo'
Howard Taylor has been appo'n'e"
Postmaster at Columbia.
20. Algren, of Moorhead, hal his mp
Joint seriously dislocated in o wrestling
match ut Fargo.
At Tower City last Sun lay night. one
hundred and fifty persons signed the tenn"
perance pledge.
Antoine L. Pe,fer has been appointed
Postmaster at Lakeport in place OF Louis
| Haddock, resigned.
The house of Sumner J. Maine. near
Huron. was destroyed by fire on the lst
inst. Nothing was saved.
The damage lone by the late rise OF
! the Missouri at Mandan and Bismarck will
not exceed s $4,000, all told.
The pastors of Huron have closed the
week of gospel temperance meetings. Hum
dreds have signed the pledge.
The consolidated Sioux Falls Argus
Leader began publication on the 4sh inst.
The Mail is not in the combination.
The Manitoba company will complete
its branch road TO Bottineau this season,
in time for moving the crops of this year.
Marshall Mcclure takes hold this week
of the paper he has bought ut Minot, and
will boom that town for all it is worth. and
it is worth a good deal.
The vast shale beds around James
town contain an excellent article to manu-
facture into pottery, and industries in that
direction are much talked of.
The wood piles OF some Of the Scot
land churches are showing evidences of
being used for other purposes than warm
ing the Christians tabernacle.
Major Hamilton, assistant clerk of the
Territorial House, has been made secretary
of tie Board of Regents of the University
of Grand Forks. The Regents have done
well in selecting him.
Il. C. Wade has sent in his resignation
to Gov. Church as member of this North
Dakota Board of Agriculture for the rea-
son that the Governor ignored the request
of the farmers in the appointments.
Council Bluffs Globe: Sioux Falls
will make a splendid appearance in six
months from now. All those new blocks
which the newspapers have been building
will then be ready for occupancy.
The excavation being made at Sioux
Falls for the cracker factory is in o solid
rock. Outside of the 70 k necessary for
the foundation walls OF the building there
will be 600 cords of stone left, and all out
Of the cellar.
Editor Chapel, Of the Journal at Grand
Rapids, LaAIoure County, is about to re-
move to the booming Town of Ashland,
Wis.,, VIII Re he is to succeed the Hon. Sam
Field in the newspaper business ana pub.
li,h a daily.
The Republican city ticket in Mandar
is rs follows: For Mayor, E. c. Rice; TO
Comptroller, G. B. Heegaari; for Treasur.
er, L. N. Cary; for Assessor, John S. Nell
son; for Justice, II. I. Hal!ock; for Mar
shall. R. J. Carr.
p. B. Groat, of the Northern Pacific,
is busy in the distribution of seed grain on
behalf of the railroad company. The com.
pany is putting out q large amount Of grain
and finds the demand for it fully as large
as was expected.
The st. P, NJ. & NJ. Company has in
creased its daily average of delivery. Of
rails and construction material at Minot tc
200 carloads. The contractors will begin
with 5000 men and 5000 teams, and in
crease their force as fast as the men and
teams can be placed.
-Firebugs are nj work at Fort Sully.
George E. Richardson, q private in Com
pany d, Eleventh infantry, is charged with
having set fire on the 81 inst. to the gran
airy and guard house and then deserving.
The fire was e%xtinguished with consider
able difficulty, entailing a loss of $500.
The Columbia Dispatch, started il
1883, has been sold by Thomas & TAYLOR
TO H. w. Campbell, who will remove t G
Office to Putney, Brown County, and es-
tablish a new paper, to be styled the Mes
sen0er. Maj. w. a. Moore, of Ordway.
we'll known throughtth territory, will have
editorial charge.
The appointment of Mr.. Rasmussen.
OF Minneapolis, to be postmaster at Devils
Lake, is hardly satisfactory to thu people OF
that place. But he OWNS q property near
DEVILS Lake on which he has all alon, in
tended to make his home, lie will mako q
good postmaster, and Minneapolis ISM
even half way out OF the northwest countrv
Agitation against prohibition and in
favor of high license has been inlu-u~,t a,1
IN Charles NIX County by a large mastjno
OF farmers, at which Il Catholic priest was
tile principal speaker. Resolutions wprs
adopted censuring the County Board f.,
refusing TO grant license aod ,enro.iin,
that prosecutions shall cease ana higb Il
cense be granted until lie question Of pro.
hib'tlon Is voted upon by the people at III.
next November election.
An adjourned meeting of the o.,
Council was held last evening. at which
'Ine an ordinance was passed calm, j,
special election on May llth, to yots q,
Una question OF lSSniD r hn,1, =. A.